Research Project (RP) was a quarterly works-in-progress series that offered a community forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and artist-to-peer support. RP brought together movement-based artists in the midst of their creative development to show work, share process, give & receive response, and chew the fat. Performances usually ran about an hour with facilitated conversation of about an hour following.

I facilitated Research Project starting in 2014, in collaboration with Aurora Tabar starting 2017. OuterSpace in Wicker Park, Chicago was RP’s home since the event was founded by Greer Dworman in 2013, initially supported by The Space Movement Project and then with the continued support of The Watering Can Dance/Jessica Marasa/Sara Zalek and the final generation of OuterSpace caretakers. RP had its last run in Spring 2019, and OuterSpace closed in Spring 2020.

Research Project Past Performers

RP 20: Skylar Males, Mariah Eastman, Lesley Keller, Samantha Dauer, Nor Performance (Cast dir. Nora Sharp)

RP 19: Christina Chammas, Jessica Smoot, Gina T’ai

RP 18: Charlotte Long, Per Erez, Danielle Ross

RP 17: Jane Jerardi, Dubi Kaufmann, Carole McCurdy

RP 16: Harlan Rosen, William Skaleski, & Marina Cortes

RP 15: Ginger Krebs, Chih Hsien Lin, Cherrie Yu, & Zach Nicol

RP 14: Helen Lee, Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan, Christine Shallenberg, & Megan Rhyme 

RP 13: Sara Zalek + KG Price, Izah Ransohoff + Charley Guptill, Courtney Mackedanz, & Carla Gruby

RP 12: M Wu, Amal Rogers, & The Space Movement Project

RP 11: Aurora Tabar, Megan Schneeberger, Hadley Smith, Carson Reiners, & Ilya Vidrin

RP 10: Evvie Allison, Aerica Siegel, Jessica Cornish + Lia Kohl, Carla Gruby, & Joanna Furnans

RP 9: Michael Workman + Jessica Cornish, Jamm n’ Honey, Jia Zhao + Avital Meshi, Charles Joseph Smith, & Rose Bouboushian

RP 8: Hope Goldman, Courtney Mackedanz, Joshua Kent, Megan Pitcher/MegLouise Dance, & The Space Movement Project

RP 7: Lorene Bouboushian, BOOMERANG, Joanna Furnans, Alana Parekh, & Molly Elizabeth Ross

RP 6: keyon gaskin, Anna Martine Whitehead, BOOMERANG, & Shannon Grayson

RP 5: Greer Dworman, Vaudeo Motion, Sara Zalek, & Joshua Kent

RP 4: M Wu, Nora Sharp, Sarah Gottlieb, & Hope Goldman (with a satellite performance at Unity Lutheran Church, Chicago)